Business Analyst

Job Description

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Product Owner to drive multiple product initiatives from discovery through delivery.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews and facilitate requirements gathering sessions with business users, engineering, data governance, and operations teams.
• Analyze business requests and identify common needs that can be translated into scalable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
• Document business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and use cases.
• Collaborate with highly technical engineering teams to clarify requirements, answer questions, and support solution design.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, story grooming, and sprint reviews using Jira.
• Support enterprise data initiatives focused on data mastering, data quality, and governance.
• Cook up across engineering, operations, governance, and business stakeholders to keep initiatives on track and remove roadblocks.
• Track project risks, action items, dependencies, and decisions while maintaining requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations, executive updates, and project status materials for leadership.
• Support business process improvement initiatives as priorities evolve across the organization.

Minimum Requirements

• 5 years of Business Analyst experience supporting enterprise technology, product, data, analytics, or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience partnering closely with a Product Manager or Product Owner throughout the product lifecycle.
• Strong experience gathering business requirements and translating them into user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews, workshops, and cross-functional discussions with competing priorities.
• Experience working directly with highly technical software engineering teams in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and Jira.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams.
• Self-starter who is detail-oriented, adaptable, resourceful, and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Must have access to a personal laptop or desktop for work.
• Must be willing to comply with org's personal trading disclosure requirements, including restrictions on stock trading during business hours and temporary worker ownership of stock.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within financial services, asset management, or investment management.
• Experience supporting enterprise data products, reporting, analytics, or business intelligence initiatives.
• Knowledge of data governance, master data management, metadata, or data quality initiatives.
• Experience with Confluence.
• SQL and/or Snowflake experience.
• Experience creating executive-level PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience supporting business process improvement or enterprise transformation initiatives.